Japanese Dagashi Assortment Snacks Sweets Candies 180pcs Assortment (A Box Full of Dagashi)

I was very pleased with this bundle because a prior purchase from another had far less variety. This one had a good variety of different items. I appreciated not having a lot of fish-centric items or corn sticks, so I got to try a nice variety.As for giftable, I would recommend shipping it to yourself and packaging from there. Like many others, this comes in a shopping bag, and it doesn’t have an item list. It’s simply a shopping bag full of great snacks. It would be nice if it came in a nicer, clear bag (akin to a kind of clear party-request grab bag that is just a flat sheet of plastic wrapped around and tied with a bread tie for example) to spruce it up for a gift if you are delivering it straight to their home, but that’s a very minor detail. The snacks overall were good, I had the advertised amount (when you factored in some packages of ramen-like chips we’re together), and it had a great variety that didn’t lean too much in any particular way. I would highly recommend this if you are unable to visit Japan currently and want to try some new snacks.Amazon (not the supplier) packaged mine with some heavy cans of soup, causing the bag to rupture, so I would personally order this separate from other Amazon orders as the warehouse can pack this with heavier objects.

For someone who likes to try different foods and snacks, this is a great mix. Not too much of any one thing. Some snacks are small, for example, just one candy the size of a chewing gum. Perfect if you simply just want a “taste” of something, and if there’s something you don’t care for much, it’s not so bad. For example, I’m not a great fan of pickled dried fish which is similar to our dried flat beef jerky and looks like fruit leather, so I was happy that there was only one of those in there. Other snacks were larger because it was a little bag of chips or something. The assortment is really good. There’s a little bit of everything in there. I would get this again if I had a craving to “mix-it-up” with my snacking. Flavors cover all spectrums of what may considered as typical Japanese and Asian snack flavors, from squid, fish, pickled, kimchi rice crackers, ume flavored mints, grape flavored candy, soda flavored candy, cookies, puffed rice snacks, coconut jelly candy, chocolate... it’s all in there in one form or another. Highly recommend if you want to try out something different. Expiration dates are all good.

I have had a lot of these snacks in previous dagashi boxes. Almost everything was delicious but the sudako con taro translated to pickled octopus. It was gross. Heavily pickled with vinegar and heavily salted this was the only snack in the whole box that was inedible. All around though I give it 5 stars. I was highly satisfied with the dagashi box that was sent to me.

I have found many amazing flavors I have never tasted before. Well worth it

I had braced myself for the worst. After I bought this, I sorted the reviews by new and discovered many people had been complaining recently about the meager lot they got.I am happy to report, I must have been lucky! After you break apart all the bigger pieces that are bundled together, it does come out to around 85 pieces including around 20 or so very small pieces. Most of them are lunch box sized bags of chips or crackers, or some sort of cheese poufs. Out of all the packaging, a individually wrapped rice cake was cracked in half, and a single Umaibo had been reduced to dust, unopened inside its wrapper. In my opinion, that is a pretty good casualty rate.The lot I got did not come in a rectangle see through bag. It came in a moderately large shopping bag that you might expect to get when buying stuff from a nice clothing store. (I posted a picture of the bag.) Upon arrival the bag itself was twisted shut and taped with something resembling blue electrical tape.Pictured is about 4/5ths of the whole lot. The rest of the stuff that is not pictured is the really itsy-bitsy stuff.Overall, I’m relatively pleased. The expiration dates are all set to expire in less than a year. So I have maybe 6 months to eat the majority of this. (Yikes! But challenge accepted!) I would say it’s a relatively good bang for your buck. I would have been quite upset if I had got what was pictured in the other reviews barely older than my review.

Like a lot of people I was not entirely sure what to expect, and I was not entirely disappointed with what was sent. There were mainly three types of “snacks”. The first consisted of a variety of different types of crunchy little puffs that are made of corn or rice. They were mostly savory flavors like onion or teriyaki or seafood flavored. These are in the biggest bags and these are the majority of the snacks. They are not bad at all, and went fine with a beer, but they were all very similar. The second type are made of the same type of stuff but in the form of a “tube” about 6 inches long and individually wrapped. Some of these were savory but at least a few were cocoa flavored. Then there were gummies, small candies, and small boxes with a few tiny pieces of gum inside. These were the fewest in number. Overall, I thought these would be fun for the Christmas stockings this year because my kids are interested in Japanese culture. The packaging is all in Japanese with a few choice anglo words or phrases like “US” or “chocolate”. Of course the little anime characters and designs are totally adorable and fun with all kinds of sound effects and appealing design. The kids were definitely surprised with something so different (they thought Santa had by mistake delivered stuff that was supposed to go to a kid in Japan instead). After trying a few things they sort of lost interest and so most of the stuff has gone un-eaten. I think American kids are more into chocolate and sweet stuff than Japanese kids are, if this assortment of snacks is any indicator, but none of what we tried was bad. If you are looking for unusual brightly colored packages of Japanese snacks and lots of them, you won’t be disappointed. If you anticipate they will all be sweet candy and stuff like that, they aren’t.